Friday and Saturday nights were a scramble to get the Penny Activity and Descriptive Statistics worksheets completed correctly.  We did not have enough information in the lecture or textbook to successfully complete the Penny Activity.  The assignment used terms which we had not been taught. 

 

Velveeta found a link for a website which defined "class mark" and demonstrated how to determine the size of a class.  This was not described or discuss in our lecture or in our textbook.

 

The descriptive statistics worksheet just took longer than I thought it would.  I ended up creating data in order to draw the representative curves in question 3.  This took about 3 times longer than I had expected.

 

We are planning our Practical Application Paper.  I am gathering climate data to analyze and present.  I suggested this to Velveeta and she is willing to consider this approach, even though she is not an ecologist.

 

 

It turned out not to be such a good idea to use my ecological data for the Practical Application paper.  Velveeta has ended up feeling resentful and unhappy with the final product.  I worked all day yesterday on the final version, and I don't believe Velveeta even looked at it.  She posted to the Assignments her version which really had very little to do with the final version I created. 

 

I thought I was responding to her comments and questions in a timely manner.  I kept revising and working on the explanation.  But I didn't for a minute anticipate her posting the assignment prematurely.

 

I've asked her to take the lead on the next large team project.